Report #60

So, the Report took a little vacation last week (couldn't get my computer to work), but we're back on track this week with a new episode and a brand new (though quite old) poem.

Back in '92 or so, I was hitchhiking around the western states and ended up in Golden Gate Park in SF. They had two prisoners of our country's War on Nature in a fenced-in area. America started this particular phase of the war (that against bison) as a way to starve out the indigenous peoples of the plains and further their genocide and subjugation. The war is continuing today here in the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem by the ranching lobby and the Department of Interior by hazing (and often killing) bison that must move beyond the borders of Yellowstone National Park to find winter forage. They tell us that this is necessary to protect Montana's cows from brucellosis (which was brought here by cows); though there's never been a case of this disease being transferred from a bison to a cow, and no cows are located in the area the bison use in the winter. Get educated and take action here.

Music this week, "Sighin' and Cryin'" is from the album Song for My Father by the Horace Silver Quintet (Blue Note, 1965).

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Report #60